Kelp greenlings ("Hexagrammos decagrammus") are found in the rocky reefs and kelp beds between the Aleutian Islands near Alaska and the coast of La Jolla, California. Image courtesy of Joseph ...

Not every artist begins with pencils or paint; Noble De Marco ’26 started with fish. “About 200 of them,” he told me, casually, like this was some typical origin story. Long before painting still life ...

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Because they are erasable, pencils are often the first tool creative people use when sketching out a ...